Adventures of the White Owl

I am living in Hangzhou, China for one year as a Senior Scholar at China Academy of Art. I will be learning Chinese in the Fall and then will be an honorary student for "Experimental Art" in the Spring. This blog will document my experiences and the art here. China is modernizing and assuming a powerful global position, I am excited and honored to be able to experience and see what is happening first hand. I hope to share as much as possible here with you.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Shanghai Biennale!

And who might make an appearnce but the old faithful Lawrence Wiener! Gotta love how on the title card it reads the title, then "language and materials referred to" for media, and naturally the dimensions are variable.

The installation below is by Chinese artist Wang Qingson. Believe it or not they are all made of copper, and cleverly painted Oldenburg-style! Of course the title card had to point out some cliched notions of population movement blahblahblah. I would have rather had some background on the artist, something that was sorely missing from these exhibitions that are supposedly trying to introduce the world to Chinese artists.